Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 00:06 +0000
Subject: [Slashdot] Metamoderation Results
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Some of your past moderations have been meta-moderated by other Slashdot readers. Here are the exciting results:
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SPAM: Content analysis details: (6.7 hits, 4 required)
SPAM: NO_REAL_NAME (0.5 points) From: does not include a real name
SPAM: CLICK_BELOW (1.5 points) BODY: Asks you to click below
SPAM: EXCUSE_1 (2.3 points) BODY: Gives a lame excuse about why you were sent this SPAM
SPAM: FREQ_SPAM_PHRASE (2.4 points) Contains phrases frequently found in spam
SPAM: [score: 10, hits: click here, help you, received]
SPAM: [this, thank you, this message, you]
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Age is only one factor. Those of us who had email before the spam boom might have had mailto: links on our website, or safely joined any mailing list we wanted, or used that address on the web. As a result, while we have an address that everyone who know us is familiar with, it's also had time to be sold, and resold on endless CD lists, but it's recognizable enough that we don't want to drop it.
Disposable accounts are all I use online (lists, sites, etc) now, but I still have to suffer tons of garbage at my 6 year old personal address. Hundreds per day, not thousands, but it's still annoying.
Thank you Spam Assassin derivitive port for keeping my main address at least tolerably usable.
think about it: if the record industry manages to move music over to the DVD format from CD, the ripping days of the average citizen may be over. (yes, hax0rz will still r00l, but most people won't)
Have you noticed the recent onslaught of "DVD2VCD" software? The problem with copying DVDs isn't the encryption, it's the size of the DVD. The encryption is probably the shortest step in the whole process. (Stripping out macrovision is almost an afterthought in the process.)
When DVD-R/RW/RAM/Whatever the hell dominates the home market, copying Music DVDs will work just fine, and once they're consumer products, I'd lay money that the consumer software to do it will follow, with protected rights to make a backup of music well established. Standalone consumer DVD-to-DVD/R* copy hardware will be close behind.
I think we're in a period where's there's a lot of fascination with the ever growing effects. (I suspect we also have The Matrix to thank for this.) Some movies released over the last year seem to have almost nothing going for them except stunts, special effects and explosions. (Triple X comes to mind instantly.)
Hopefully once everyone is used to the massive amounts of digital effects in every movie, movies will succeed or fail based on quality and enhanced by, not just composed of, flashy stunts and digital effects.
Speaking of which, Shaolin Soccer (Kung Fu Soccer in the US) combines bullet time type effects with (obviously cheap, but workable) digital effects and a HILARIOUS premise. It's a light hearted riot for anyone who can find it to rent it. It's a good example of effects used to extend the over the top comedy of any given situation.
I've had my drives in every system, but they all go bad from dust exposure in a few months from lack of use. Not that I can find a 3 1/2" disk that works without buying a new box, anyway.
Seriously. Punitives for pain & suffering should be calculated by the same folks who calculated the dollar value on his hacking.
Can libel be punished by jail time? Libelous sensationalist reporting should be met with the same treatment Kevin received; they create more terror by exaggerating the news than "cyber terrorist" hackers actually do.
(Virus/Trojan/Worm Writers not included, since that bunch is just out of hand these days.)
X-Wing vs Tie Fighter needs remaking. With the poly counts and quality of current cards, truly galactic conflicts are possible. And with a little UI copying from people who've done it successfully, commanding a wing of fighters could be done better than ever.
X-Wing vs Tie Fighter: Red Leader Tactical. Yum.
Nor is it that hard to actually put your CDs into one of the CD wallets and carry them between the car and your house.
While it might sound like technologist whining, I purchased a MP3-CD player for my car specifically for the ability to compile a 10 hour collection of music I like in the order I want organized by directories. It was easily the most worthwhile purchase for my car system, and has made life in the car much easier. It also undercut the cost of any CD Changer system that could match it for capability, and surpasses most for features (ID3 Navigation and Display, Directory and Full Disk random/repeat etc) Who wants to switch CDs after the one good song on each.
I will be one of the people buying only from the people who allow me to make copies of my overpriced CDs that I bought for the one good song.
It's unfortunate she has only reached "Princess Mononoke". I suppose a sequel will be in the works for "Anime from 'Rurouni Kenshin' to 'Zeiram'"
Tongue firmly planted in cheek.
I see what you're saying, but I don't agree. Google's lack of ads was gravy, it's main feature was that it was a better engine giving better results.
It spread largely by word of mouth (and then critical praise in publications), my friends didn't say "It has less ads", but "I find everything I'm looking for faster".
Microsoft's tactics against Netscape went MUCH further than just releasing another, superior browser, onto the market. The core of what MS did that was bad as opposed to Netscape's similar "free" release and success was bundling IE in Windows 95. The Plus! pack release is seldom called into contention, at least partly because IE was godawfully unstable at the time.
Netscape's rise was more like Google's, where it rose to "power" by being more and more favoured by web surfers; it's major competition was also free. We used Internet in a Box which came with Spry Mosaic, but DOWNLOADED Netscape on top of that because it was better.
My god man, Netscape 2.0 had BACKGROUNDS! The web was no longer gray!
It is a voluntary sticker on the games, however, WalMart, CompUSA and others had pledged to enforce these age limits with their OWN store policies.
WalMart even sent it's checking staff for special training specifically in this area. (Y'know, a one week seminar on ESRB labelling and what it means.)
Everyone seems to think MS making prices this low is a good thing. MS is cash rich and can sustain losses enough to put any software company out of business while it undercuts and dominates a market. This is standard operating procedure for Microsoft, and it's how it pushes it's way into a new market and then becomes the defacto standard.
Hell, they'd give it away for free if they felt like it.
Having said all that, ostensibly, WM9 is superior to MPEG-4 and as such, has it's own advantages aside from price; price is just the icing on the cake to ensure they'll "win".
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Slashdot think it's own email is junk :)
Subject: [Slashdot] Metamoderation Results
From: slashdot@slashdot.org
To: xxxx@xxxxxxx.xxx
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Some of your past moderations have been meta-moderated by other Slashdot readers. Here are the exciting results:
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You have received this message because you subscribed to it on Slashdot.
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SPAM: Spamnix identified this message as spam. This report shows which
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SPAM:
SPAM: Content analysis details: (6.7 hits, 4 required)
SPAM: NO_REAL_NAME (0.5 points) From: does not include a real name
SPAM: CLICK_BELOW (1.5 points) BODY: Asks you to click below
SPAM: EXCUSE_1 (2.3 points) BODY: Gives a lame excuse about why you were sent this SPAM
SPAM: FREQ_SPAM_PHRASE (2.4 points) Contains phrases frequently found in spam
SPAM: [score: 10, hits: click here, help you, received]
SPAM: [this, thank you, this message, you]
SPAM: [for]
Damn. Now those annoying "services logging on a dedicated logging machine" people have leverage.
Disposable accounts are all I use online (lists, sites, etc) now, but I still have to suffer tons of garbage at my 6 year old personal address. Hundreds per day, not thousands, but it's still annoying.
Thank you Spam Assassin derivitive port for keeping my main address at least tolerably usable.
Good to know the witch hunt is alive and well.
Expendable Archer: "Helm's Deep is Doomed!"
Have you noticed the recent onslaught of "DVD2VCD" software? The problem with copying DVDs isn't the encryption, it's the size of the DVD. The encryption is probably the shortest step in the whole process. (Stripping out macrovision is almost an afterthought in the process.)
When DVD-R/RW/RAM/Whatever the hell dominates the home market, copying Music DVDs will work just fine, and once they're consumer products, I'd lay money that the consumer software to do it will follow, with protected rights to make a backup of music well established. Standalone consumer DVD-to-DVD/R* copy hardware will be close behind.
Exchange is just over ¥120 to $1
Hopefully once everyone is used to the massive amounts of digital effects in every movie, movies will succeed or fail based on quality and enhanced by, not just composed of, flashy stunts and digital effects.
Speaking of which, Shaolin Soccer (Kung Fu Soccer in the US) combines bullet time type effects with (obviously cheap, but workable) digital effects and a HILARIOUS premise. It's a light hearted riot for anyone who can find it to rent it. It's a good example of effects used to extend the over the top comedy of any given situation.
Seriously. Or else everyone will start patenting Teleportation, Time Travel etc "just in case" as a get rich quick scheme.
I've had my drives in every system, but they all go bad from dust exposure in a few months from lack of use. Not that I can find a 3 1/2" disk that works without buying a new box, anyway.
Can libel be punished by jail time? Libelous sensationalist reporting should be met with the same treatment Kevin received; they create more terror by exaggerating the news than "cyber terrorist" hackers actually do.
(Virus/Trojan/Worm Writers not included, since that bunch is just out of hand these days.)
X-Wing vs Tie Fighter needs remaking. With the poly counts and quality of current cards, truly galactic conflicts are possible. And with a little UI copying from people who've done it successfully, commanding a wing of fighters could be done better than ever. X-Wing vs Tie Fighter: Red Leader Tactical. Yum.
While it might sound like technologist whining, I purchased a MP3-CD player for my car specifically for the ability to compile a 10 hour collection of music I like in the order I want organized by directories. It was easily the most worthwhile purchase for my car system, and has made life in the car much easier. It also undercut the cost of any CD Changer system that could match it for capability, and surpasses most for features (ID3 Navigation and Display, Directory and Full Disk random/repeat etc) Who wants to switch CDs after the one good song on each.
I will be one of the people buying only from the people who allow me to make copies of my overpriced CDs that I bought for the one good song.
It's unfortunate she has only reached "Princess Mononoke". I suppose a sequel will be in the works for "Anime from 'Rurouni Kenshin' to 'Zeiram'" Tongue firmly planted in cheek.
Btw, a direct link to the news article is here
iirc, the station is rather popular because of the music, which is modern american tracks.
I don't have mod points, but this is the first slash dot post that made me actually laugh this year, like, physically emit a sound. Nice one :)
heh maybe they were using apache on the linux monkey as the web server. /. shut down the bar and crashed the party :(
Hell, it's even cheaper than some versions of Windows, and it pours liquor!
It spread largely by word of mouth (and then critical praise in publications), my friends didn't say "It has less ads", but "I find everything I'm looking for faster".
Netscape's rise was more like Google's, where it rose to "power" by being more and more favoured by web surfers; it's major competition was also free. We used Internet in a Box which came with Spry Mosaic, but DOWNLOADED Netscape on top of that because it was better.
My god man, Netscape 2.0 had BACKGROUNDS! The web was no longer gray!
WalMart even sent it's checking staff for special training specifically in this area. (Y'know, a one week seminar on ESRB labelling and what it means.)
Hell, they'd give it away for free if they felt like it.
Having said all that, ostensibly, WM9 is superior to MPEG-4 and as such, has it's own advantages aside from price; price is just the icing on the cake to ensure they'll "win".
Undercutting to gain market control and then skyrocketing prices is the reason anti-trust legislation exists.